WEBVTT DON'T NEED AN ADMISSION OFGUILT.THEY SAY HERNANDEZ HAS ALREADYPROVIDED THAT IN INK.AARON HERNANDEZ'S GROWINGCOLLECTION OF TATTOOS ISN'T JUSTA PERSONAL STATEMENT, SAYPROSECUTORS, BUT RATHER A VERYVIVID, VERY LITERAL MAP OF HISOWN LIFE'S STORY.>> IS IN FACT AN ADMISSION BY, MISTER HERNANDEZ, IS SOMEWHATOF A CONFESSION.JULIE IN FEBRUARY, THE FORMER: PATRIOT WILL STAND TRIAL FOR ADOUBLE MURDER IN THE SUMMER OF2012.SAFIRO FURTADO AND DANIEL DEABREU WERE SHOT AS THEY RODE INTHIS BMW.EIGHT MONTHS LATER, PROSECUTORSSAY HERNANDEZ GOT A BRAND NEWTATTOO OF A REVOLVER.>> THE CYLINDER OF THE REVOLVERINCLUDE ONE EMPTY CHAMBERSUGGESTING THAT THE REVOLVER HAD, 5 LIVE ROUNDS.BOTH MEN WERE SHOT A TOTAL OF 5TIMES.AT THAT SAME SESSION, LAWYERSSAY THE FORMER TIGHT END HAD THEWORDS "GOD FORGIVES" TATTOOSBENEATH THAT REVOLVER, ALONGWITH A STILL SMOLDERING BULLETCASING.THAT, SAY PROSECUTORS LINKS THE, CONVICTED KILLER TO THENEAR-FATAL SHOOTING OF ALEXANDERBRADLEY, A FORMER FRIEND AND THEONLY WITNESS TO THE SOUTH ENDMURDERS MORE THAN FOUR YEARSAGO.>> THE TATTOOS ARE WHAT THEYARE.ANY STORY AROUND WHAT THETATTOOS REPRESENT IS NOTEVIDENCEWE DO NOT THINK THAT THEYREFLECT THE MURDERS.THEY DON'T REFLECT THE MURDERS.JULIE:HERNANDEZ WILL BE BACK INCOURT IN JANUARY, AT WHICH TIMETHE JUDGE IS EXPECTED TO RULE ONTHE TATTOOS.HERNANDEZ IS SET TO FACE THE

Jurors at Aaron Hernandez's upcoming double murder trial shouldn't hear about his tattoos or text messages sent to his sports agent, attorneys for former New England Patriots player told a judge Tuesday.

Hernandez is charged with killing two men in a 2012 drive-by shooting, because one of the men bumped into the former football star in a Boston nightclub, prosecutors said.

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Hernandez, who attended Tuesday's hearing wearing a suit and a tie, has pleaded not guilty to killing 29-year-old Daniel de Abreu and 28-year-old Safiro Furtado. His trial is scheduled to start in February.

Hernandez had tattoos done soon after the victims were killed that link him to the slayings, prosecutor Patrick Haggan said in court.

One is of a revolver with five bullets in the chamber and one missing, which prosecutors allege represents the five shots fired into the car occupied by the victims. They also pointed to a tattoo that reads "God Forgives," but is written backward so it becomes clear only when read in a mirror.

Ronald Sullivan, one of Hernandez's attorneys, called the prosecution's theory "speculation," and "inference," and said allowing jurors to hear about the tattoos would be a violation of Hernandez's constitutional right to a fair trial.

The defense also asked the judge to bar as evidence text messages between Hernandez and a former friend that were later forwarded to sports agent Brian Murphy.

The prosecution said the texts, involving prosecution witness Alexander Bradley, also tie Hernandez to the crime.

The defense said the texts are protected by attorney-client privilege.

The prosecution said Murphy was not acting as Hernandez's lawyer at the time.

Suffolk Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Locke did not immediately rule.

Hernandez is already serving a life sentence for the 2013 shooting death of Odin Lloyd, the boyfriend of his fiancee's sister.